Geez louise. Writing patterns is hard dude. You can fine-tooth comb what you write until the cows come home and then you'll hit PUBLISH! and then 6 comments too late you'll spot the glaring error that you missed over and over. Never again will I bitch and complain when I see errors in a pattern, even ones that I've paid for. Well no, maybe I will complain, because I mean money was involved. But I just won't complain AS MUCH because damn. Writing patterns is hard.

My notes didn't really help me either. I have a bad habit of scribbling on the first piece of scrap paper I can find, and on the rare occasion that I do have a dedicated notebook, I will scribble on any free available space I can find. Instead of you know, flipping to a clean page or something normal like that. I had this Santa Fe notebook while traveling there. My sock notes are scribbled underneath directions to Scout's house and various points around Albuquerque. Sniff! I miss you guys!

My handwriting is shit and so are my mathematics. I have written "56 sts, 18 on 3 needles." I actually transferred that to my typed notes and spent like hours wondering why sts weren't adding up. And yes I was going to name these socks "Puck" because they are so whimsical and so full of sprite! Something like that.

One thing I don't like is giving hard numbers, aside from how many stitches to start with. For example, I think the number of stitches to pick up for the gusset is totally a ballpark figure, give or take a few stitches. I say 15, but depending on how you knit you might pick up 14. Or 16.

One or two stitches off isn't going to kill the whole thing. So I guess I'm saying this to cover my butt in case a number is off. If it's off by one, don't fret. If it's off by more than 5, then ok that's wrong.

The socks are only one size which I think it's ok. It's very easy to make larger socks if you want, either by going up a needle size OR by adding another stitch to the chart so that it's a 10-stitch x 19-row chart. You'd increase the overall stitch count by 6 sts, from 54 to 60. That's what, just under an inch?

Anyway, if you do attempt to knit Zephyr, let me know how it goes (NOTE: I found a big boo-boo already a couple hours after I posted, hopefully no one has printed already but if you have, please reprint!!). I changed a few things from my own socks without test knitting, but they're small things. I changed the ribbing from my own socks, changed the length, changed the toe. So don't look at my photos for too much reference...

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